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Open Source Cocktails

AceRock — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 12:00:14 -0800

The Violet Hour, a speakeasy styled lounge in Chicago with no sign, has been pushing the envelope in creative drink mixing since it opened in 2005. Toby Maloney, the Violet Hour's "Head Intoxocologist", had no problem posting on a Chicago food forum and sharing some of the drink recipes that have made his bar one of the most exciting in the country.

This one recently won third place in GQ's 20 best cocktails: Juliet & Romeo * 2 oz Beefeater * .75 oz Fresh Lime Juice * .75 oz Simple Syrup * 3 drops Rose Water * 3 drops Angostura * 3 slices Cucumber * 3 sprigs Mint * Tiny pinch of salt Glass: Coupe Garnish: Mint leaf and 1 drop rose water/3 drops of Angostura Bitters. Ice: None Muddle cucumber, mint and pinch of salt. Add rest of ingredients. Let sit for 30 seconds (time allowing). Shake. Strain. Garnish with 1 floating mint leaf and 1 drop rose water on top of leaf, and 3 more drops of angostura on the surface of the drink. You can buy rose water at Sultans Market on North Ave. I would get an eye dropper at the container store as well as a couple of extra drops will make this drink way to much like the jewerly box of a very old southern belle. The pinch of salt is really, really small. It should be muddled with the cuke to bring out it's freshness.

Scottish brewery launches beer with 32% alcohol content.

Neekee — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:40:21 -0800

'World's strongest' beer with 32% strength launched. A warning on the label states: "This is an extremely strong beer; it should be enjoyed in small servings and with an air of aristocratic nonchalance. In exactly the same manner that you would enjoy a fine whisky, a Frank Zappa album or a visit from a friendly yet anxious ghost." (from the BBC) So, who's in?

I Can Quit Anytime I Want!

ShawnStruck — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:57:23 -0800

Internet Vices: various Web 2.0 sites and services, recast as drugs and alcohol. For example, myspace "is huffing spray paint: Destroys any chance of looking credible. You will be perceived as having the mindset of a middle schooler, and probably do."

The first glass goes down like a post...

TheWhiteSkull — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:57:17 -0800

Russian food porn. Gorgeous photography of Russian snacks and the alcohol they accompany.

Music Journalism FTW

LSK — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 08:26:16 -0800

The New York Times discusses some of the nation's most atrocious bands in the context of the Vans Warped Tour. We've seen some of these bands on the blue before, but never before has there been this much atrocity in one place. Some songs to satiate your curiosity: BrokeNCYDE - Freaxxx Millionaires - Alcohol Attack Attack! - Stick Sickly

Hitting bottom

Kattullus — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:33:54 -0800

On 200 mg a day of baclofen, in an important meeting with several associate deans of my college and three new department chairs (I was made chair of my philosophy department just a few weeks before I tried to commit suicide), I fell asleep with my head on the conference room table and, for 40 minutes, everyone was too embarrassed to wake me. Somnolence is the most obvious and inconvenient side effect of baclofen. I reduced my dosage to 100 mg a day, and started taking it only at bedtime. A few days later, a colleague asked if I had changed my medicine. ‘Yes,’ I told her. ‘Why do you ask?’ She is German, an analytic philosopher, and therefore very direct: ‘You are drooling less than you were.’

My Life as a Drunk is a searingly honest essay by novelist and philosophy professor Clancy Martin about his experiences with alcoholism, AA, valium and baclofen.

Ice Ice Baby

HumuloneRanger — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:02:45 -0800

It's no secret that classic cocktails are back. Fresh fruit and house-made bitters and infusions are de rigueur, but no less important is the quality of the ice. Good ice and the right shake ensure that spirits are properly chilled and diluted and improve the cocktail's flavor profile.

Mr. Huntsman -- Tear. Down. That. Wall.

mudpuppie — Fri, 15 May 2009 15:43:30 -0800

The 'Zion Curtain' has fallen. While existing Utah restaurants may remove partitions separating patrons and booze, known as the "Zion Curtain," new restaurants will be required to store liquor and mix drinks out of public view. In other Utah-/alcohol-related news, a restaurant membership is no longer required in order to purchase a drink. Oh, and hit-and-run accidents resulting in injuries are now felonies, but only if the driver has a previous DUI conviction.

A wee dram

Joe Beese — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:38:20 -0800

Malt Madness. Malt Maniacs. Whisky Fun.

Make your own pruno and may God have mercy on your soul

sveskemus — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 02:37:59 -0800

How to make prison wine out of oranges, sugar and ketchup. Part of the series "How to do some idiotic things."

Ratify it! Ratify it! Ratify it!

HaloMan — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 06:47:19 -0800

On 5 December 1933, 75 years ago today, Utah became the 36th state to ratify the Twenty-First Amendment of the United States Constitution, signalling the end of the Prohibition era.

That donut I drank was delicious.

jbickers — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:29:19 -0800

How many calories did you drink last night? Alcohol intake, rendered in food equivalents. More on alcohol and weight loss. Dammit.

Oops! The magnet was an accident.

Eekacat — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 19:22:04 -0800

NASCAR as little as they like it, has it's roots in Moonshine. Junior Johnson, one of the early heroes who is considered the greatest to never win a championship, has even gone legal with it after getting his start running Moonshine for his father. He was even the subject of a 1965 Tom Wolfe Essay as the Last American Hero. The latest cheating scandal to hit NASCAR? Junior just says they were doing their job, being creative, and just got caught.

Cette bud n'est pas pour vous

Artw — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:59:06 -0800

Save Budweiser! – An American beer titan may be bought up by evil Europeans, only you can save it!

The Dude abides

Artw — Thu, 29 May 2008 23:50:56 -0800

How to make the worst White Russian ever. That's what you get for asking for cocktail at some super square looking business hotel adjacent to an exhibition center. Ok, ok, here's how to make a nice one. Ooh it looks like Jupiter. Try one hot. Teeny tiny Kahlua drinks. Do NOT cook pork in it. Oh, okay, go ahead. Make you own kahlua. It won't be as pretty as this. While we're adding coffee to booze why not add booze to coffee.

Watermelon On Tap

mr_crash_davis — Wed, 28 May 2008 15:33:00 -0800

I know what you're thinking: "What if I attached a faucet to a watermelon and filled it with spiked watermelon juice so party guests could serve themselves right from the melon?"

Warum nicht wir betrunken erhalten (und schraube)

psmealey — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:39:18 -0800

Europeans Get Drunk to Have Sex. The UK has one of the worst reputations for binge drinking and underage sex but there are striking similarities between countries, a study found. A third of 16 to 35-year-old men and 23% of women questioned said they drank to increase their chance of sex. The study - of 1,341 young people in nine countries including the UK - is published in BMC Public Health. PDF available here. Have a great weekend, everyone.

Cornbread Nation

Miko — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:07:03 -0800

The Southern Foodways Alliance is one weighed-down church-supper table, full of oral history/blog projects like The Tamale Trail, the Boudin Trail, interviews and recipes from the Bartenders of New Orleans, photo essay/interviews from Birmingham's Greek-Americans, a mess o'homemade films, and a passel of event and BBQ-shack photos on Flickr, all smothered in the tangy-sweet academic goodness of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at Ole Miss. These folks get my vote for most flavorful, funkiest food-loving folklorists in the lower forty-eight. Tamales previously mentioned here, and Prince's Hot Chicken here, but the whole site is worth a bookmark and a long evening on the porch.

Infusions of Grandeur

Blazecock Pileon — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 17:17:39 -0800

Cantaloupe, garlic, ginger, habenero, kiwi, nutmeg, pineapple, spearmint, watermelon and many other vodka infusion experiments by the crack alconomics team of Waylan and Brendan.

ALLDEAD

snsranch — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:29:43 -0800

ALLDEAD by Christopher Keeley. Photos of and commentary about the many friends he has made and lost during his years in the intervention business. (Some NSFW artsy nudity.) Scroll down on first link for links to hundreds more of his photos.

What Would Jesus Drink?

ericb — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:36:14 -0800

What Would Jesus Drink? -- “A rabbi, a priest and a minister walk into a bar. The bartender looks at them and says, ‘What is this, a joke?’ In one Pennsylvania bar, it's no laughing matter. On the last Friday of every month, teams of chaplains...set up camp in the Market Cross Pub in Carlisle, Penn. for a few hours to lend a sympathetic, non-judgmental ear to patrons looking for someone to listen to their tales of woe.” ‘We're not going to strong-arm anybody,’ Chuck Kish, the Assemblies of God pastor who started the bar chaplaincy program [says], adding that the bar chaplains aren't there to proselytize or stop anyone from drinking. ‘We give more pastoral care, listening to what you have to say.’ Even if you're slurring your words and don't remember it the next morning. There is little consensus across religious traditions about whether alcohol consumption is morally right or wrong, beyond the near universal condemnation of drunkenness.”

The hard shake, on the balls, and edible cocktails

madamjujujive — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 02:27:38 -0800

"In the U.S., they're mixing drinks with herbs and other weird ingredients, but in Ginza the best guys just polish their cocktails like jewels." And perhaps no Japanese mixology master has contributed more than Kauzo Ueda, who has perfected the art of the hard shake, a refinement over more traditional shake styles. He has a disciple in NYC's Eben Freeman, who now imparts the secrets of the hard shake via a video tutorial. * A review of the solid drinks pictured in the "weird ingredients" link. * The cocktails you eat * Cocktails enter the ice age * In Japan, giant ice balls are often hand carved (as in the videos in "polish" and "jewels") but if you don't want to carve your own, there is an easier way to make your own giant ice balls. * For some great cocktail recipes and a sidebar of kickass links to cocktail blogs and sites, you can't do better than Looka! The Gumbo Pages by Mefi's own, Chuq.

Tales from the Booze Bus

geoff. — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:25:55 -0800

"It is binge drinking. We don't see people who've had just two drinks. People have had 20 shots of vodka." In central London, "Alternative Response Vehicle - or Booze Bus, as it's more commonly known - draw on their reserves of composure, ingenuity and stoicism to treat more than 20 dazed drunks," over the course of a 12-hour shift. Well, at least it is not as bad as it used to be: Gin Lane, 1751

Animal Planet investigates alcoholism in monkeys

finite — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:32:42 -0800

"Significantly, the percentage of monkeys and humans who avoid alcohol is the same." [YouTube]

Flying with the green fairy

dead_ — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 08:44:55 -0800

Meet St. George Absinthe Verte, "the first American-made absinthe on the market in almost a century." Since Absinthe was legalized earlier this year, various brewers have moved into the market--but is is really the same thujone-enhanced drink that drove many-an-artist to madness?